Basket Item Number: E404029-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
From card: "Flexible vertical cylinder, sloping slightly toward the flat base, plain twined weaving, decorated in vertical rows of concentric rectangles, and animal figure around top edge; braided rim with shallow loops is partly broken. Obtained about 1900. Reference: Mason, p. 234, fig. 15, pl. 164." Per Barbara Brotherton, Seattle Art Museum, 11-6-2007, the concentric rectangles in the design represent puppy pens and the animal figures with upcurved tails near the pens depict dogs.
Item History
- Made in Bellingham, Washington, USA
- Collected by Caroline Rhinehart in Bellingham, Washington, USA
- Received from Robert D. Curtis on November 4, 1965
What
- Name
- Basket
- Identification Number
- E404029-0
- Type of Item
- basket
Who
- Culture
- Coast Salish: Skokomish
- Field Collector
- Caroline Rhinehart
- Received from
- Robert D. Curtis
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Bellingham, Washington, USA
- Collected in
- Bellingham, Washington, USA
When
- Acquisition Date
- on November 4, 1965
Other
- Accession Number
- 263855